Kevin Durant brushed by reporters Monday night in the bowels of Barclays Center, not stopping to make statements or answer questions.
? And will he follow suit in forcing his way out?
“I won’t complicate it. Like I said, I’m going to coach the group that’s in front of me and to coach the group that’s in the locker room. That won’t change. I’m not going to speculate and get in Kevin’s mind at all. Not gonna even try to do that. I’m going to coach this group. I look forward to coaching him and look forward to winning.”Nets couldn’t win Monday, falling 124-116 to the Clippers
“He wants to win at shootaround, he wants to win any game of the week. That’s why he loves to play and that’s why he wants to play 82 games. That will be our holy grail. We’ll continue to try to put a group out that wins and until there’s something for me to be concerned about, then I’ll carry on business as usual.”
While the Lakers and Suns made concrete offers for Irving, the Nets took the Dallas package because they needed players playing at a high level, rather than just future assets. That again was about assuaging Durant, whose manager Rich Kleiman has heretofore been silent.“For us, our expectations don’t change. We’ll put a product on the floor that will compete and play hard. No ifs, ands or buts about that,” Vaughn said. “We have an unbelievable ownership and group who want to win.
In the first year of a four-year, $198 million max contract extension, Durant would bring back a king’s ransom, but one the Nets — who’ve been in dialogue with their star — hope to not ever have to see.
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